Hither to-day you have my call,

To quit the volume in which you are bound,

And make, together, a holiday round,

And go in a group to the play."

So the principal characters, giving a look

Of delight, jumped out of the Shakspeare book;

Daylight was on the wane.

Out they skipped, ready equipped,

And started for Drury Lane.

In full-ness of his fat led Falstaff, spruce and clean,